Charles dusenberry



(No Model.) C. DUSBNBERRY, Jr,

FLY FRONT GARMBNT. No. 436,650.

TN: norms paens co., Puo-roanne., wAsHxNumn, n. c.

d UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES DUSENBERRY, JR., OF TUOKAHOE, ASSIGNOR TO THE IIODGIWIAN RUBBER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FLY-FRONT GARNI ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,650, dated September 16, 1890.

Application filed April 17, 1890. Serial No. 348,351. (No model.)

.To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES DUsENBERRY, .I r., of Tuckahoe, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fly-Front Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

My invention relates to ily-front garments, and has for its chief object to provide garro ments of this character and rubber garments more particularly, which shall have a neater and smoother face and edge nish at the flyfront than ordinary garments of this class.

The invention will iirst be described, and

r 5 then will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of referzo ence indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure l is an inside face view of the iiyfront portion of a rubber-coat garment made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line oc oc in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line y y, Fig. l. Fig. etis an enlarged vertical longitudinal sectional view taken through the adjacent edges of the main fabric and fly 3o of the coat-front at the upper part ofthe iiy. Fig. 5 is a cross-section taken on the line z .e in Fig. l, and Fig. Gis a vertical longitudinal sectional view showing a modied connection of the coat-front binding-cords between 3 5 the button-holes of the fly.

My improvement is adapted to all classes of fly-front coats or garments; but I will particularly describe it as applied to a rubber coat, as it is especially serviceable in this 4o class of garments.

In rubber coats it is customary to cement or gum the inside facing or tlypiece A to the inner face of the front fabric B or to its lining C, but leaving that portion of the iiy-facing which compasses or carries the fly button-holes D free from the front or its lining. This free portion a of the ily-facing or fly proper is indicated by all that part of it lying between and outside of the dotted lines a 5o a2 a3 in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The edges of the fly-facing piece A, and the main coat V fabric B above the upper line a2 of freedom of the iiy proper a are turned inward before these parts are cemented together to make a smooth-edge finish, as indicatedin Figs. land 2 of the drawings. The ordinary throughand-through top button-hole E is produced in these two closely-cemented top portions of the fly-facing and main fabric, while the button-holes D are produced only through the 6o iiy proper a, so as to `be invisible at the outer face of the garment, as usual.

Ordinarily those portions of the fly proper between yits button-holes are cemented or gummed fast at the center to the outer or main front of a rubber garment, and small gusset-pieces are cemented or gummed in at the ends of the fly-openingleft to reach each of the button-holes. Perhaps the chief objection to this mode of making is that the intermedi- 7o ate cemented parts of the ilyv and main fabrics, together with the interposed folded and cemented gusset-pieces, gives the outer face of the coat next the fly a very puokered or drawn appearance, which detracts from or 7 5 impairs the otherwise neat inish of the garment. In my improvement I obviate this and assure a comparatively smooth outerface for the garment at the fly by simply binding a suitable cord re-enforce to the outer edges of 8c the coat-front fabric and the fly-facing fabric, and connecting these two cords at places between or near the y button-holes, and preferably by crossing the cords once over each other or by looping them together, as next described. I i

In the preferred construction I use but one continuous cord F, preferably made of silk or linen threads, and doubled over at f at a point opposite the end of the upper dotted 9o line a2, which marks the upper end of the loose fly proper ct of the garment. From this point f the two side portions f f2 of the binding-cord are cemented or gummed or otherwise confined to the edges of the iiyfacing A and main fabric B of the coat, and preferably within a hem of these two parts, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings. I prefer to cross or interlock the two side parts f f2, of the fly-binding cords but :oo

once between successive button-holes D of the fly at points 1 2 3 and at the lower end thereofata point 4, whence the cord or cords extend downward to the lower edge of the garment. At the above-named points of connection 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the two parts ff2 of the fly-binding cord I cross them but once, whereby the uppermost portions f f2 of the cordl which respectively extend downward along the ily fabric A and main fabric B are carried across to the opposite fabric, so that from the point 1 the cord f ranges down the main fabric B, and the cord f2 ranges down the fly fabric A, and thus the cords run until they are again crossed at the point 2, when the cord f again resumes its downward course along the fabric A, while the cord f2 passes along the fabric B. From the next point 3 of crossing of the cords the one f ranges down the fabric B, and the other f2 ranges downward along the fabric A, and from the next lower crossing at 4 the cords f f2 range down the fabric A B, respectively, to the lower edge of the garment. Fig. 1 of the drawings shows the complete course of the crossed parts f f2 of the binding-cord F from the top of the fiy proper a to the lower edge of the garment, and Fig. 4 shows the bindingcord in larger scale from its double or loop at f to and a little below the first point 1 of crossing of the two parts of the cord.

Obviously I am not limited to the preferred plan of crossing the binding-cords but once at the points of connection 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the fly and main fabric, as the cords may be crossed twice or looped together, as shown at 5 in Fig. 6 of the drawings. In this modified arrangement of the cords each cord traverses the same fabric A or B from the top of the yproper to the bottom of the garment.

It will be remembered that in rubber coats or garments my fly-bindin g cords are cemented within hems of the fabrics. Hence the mode of connecting the cords by simply crossing them once, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings, is much preferable over the plan of looping them one in the other, (shown in Fig. 6,) because the hems of the fly fabric A and main fabric B can be much more closely cementedl be drawn or stretched out to leave the cord bare than with the other or double-looped connections. In fact, when the fly-binding cords are crossed but once they will at the crossing-points be quite concealed by the fabric hems and will remain so while the garment lasts. It will also be noticed that by using b ut one cord F and doubling or looping it over at f at the top of the fly proper ct much smoother and stronger finish is given by one continuous binding-cord than would be possible with two separate cords. Furthermore,the ranging of the two parts of the cord or of two separate cords, should these be used, down from the last point of connection at 4 to the bottom of the coat and where the two fabrics A B are closely cemented together, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, serves to re-enforce the lower part of the Iiyfront of the garment.

The iy-front cord or cords F maybe round in cross-section, as shown in the drawings, or the cords may have any other suitable at or other desired form, as will readily be understood.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a fly-front garment, the combination, with the front fabric and attached flyfacing, of a cord re-enforce held to the fabric and facing and crossed at places between or adjacent to the button-holes of the fly, substantially as described.

2. In a iy-front garment, the combination, with the front fabric and attached fiy-facing, of a cord re-enforce doubled or looped at one end of the fly proper and crossed at intervals between or adjacent to the button-holes of the fly, substantially as described.

3. In a fly-front garment, the combination, with the front fabric and attached fly-facing, of a cord re-enforce made in one piece doubled or looped at one end of the fly proper, and crossed at intervals between or adjacent to the button-holes of the fly and extending to the lower edge of the garment, substantially as described.

CHARLES DUSENBERRY, JR.

Vitnesses:

J. M. LENT, n HERBERT D. LEN'r. 

